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‘It smelled like really bad, gas, really strong stove oil’: What will it take to heal after typhoon waters cover villages in Western Alaska?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Hundreds of people have evacuated and lost their homes after floodwaters contaminated with toxic chemicals destroyed dozens of buildings in communities in the ...
Alaska Public Media

Kwigillingok artist captures the senses of a home that many remain displaced from

When Jeron Joseph evacuated from his home community of Kwigillingok after ex-typhoon Halong, he sheltered with family in Anchorage. When visiting those sheltering in the Egan Center, he showed his ...

These Alaska villages were swept away by a typhoon. They’re fighting with FEMA to not rebuild in the flood zone

When the remnants of Typhoon Halong’s flood water receded last October, entire villages had been leveled by the storm.
Oregonian

Alaska works to evacuate storm victims by helicopter and plane in historic airlift

Hundreds of residents from remote Alaska Native villages are being airlifted after a storm battered their low-lying communities over the weekend, wiping away homes and killing at least one person. Two ...
WWNO

Houses floated away in this Alaska Native village. Now residents want to move

KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska — When the remnants of Typhoon Halong arrived in the low-lying village of Kwigillingok, on Alaska's southwestern coast, late in the night on Oct. 11, Noah Andrew Sr. says the ...
USA Today

Flooding from ex-typhoon kills 1, displaces hundreds in Alaska

One person died and dozens were rescued in Alaska floodwaters from the remnants of a typhoon that pushed homes off their foundations and displaced more than 1,000 people, authorities said. Former ...